Category: Reviews

One of my goals for this year is to figure out how to stop taking a laptop on trips with me. Literally the only reason I carry one — unless I’m doing my job while traveling — is so I have something I can load...

The Consuming Fire, by John Scalzi (Interdependency Book 2) I just finished a quick trip to Morro Bay, and on the last evening there, I decided to start John Scalzi’s latest book, Consuming Fire. Sometime after that, I...

Sometimes you experiment with something and it works great, like my recent find of the Satechi travel charger to replace the white puck from Apple at less cost with more functionality. But sometimes, things don’t work for...

One thing I did early in 2018 was get new glasses. My prescription was more than overdue, and I was definitely noticing the change, both in sharpness while trying to take pictures and eye fatigue while reading. I probably...

William Neill, Photographer Buy on Amazon I grew up visiting Yosemite National Park on a regular basis, and so that location is a favorite of mine, and as a landscape photographer, it’s iconic scenery is of great interest...

Grunt Buy on Amazon In Grunt, Mary Roach takes a different look at our modern military through an investigation through the kind of research being done on how to keep soldiers alive. The enemies they’re fighting aren’t the ones...

Storm Front Buy on Amazon His name is Harry Dresden. He is a wizard. No, seriously. You can look him up in the phone book. He finds things. And people. And occasionally helps out the police on murders when certain things can’t...

Every Heart a Doorway Buy on Amazon In Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire wants you to imagine. Imagine that Alice in Wonderland wasn’t a children’s story, but actually happened. Imagine that the Egyptian Halls of the Dead...

Here’s a list of the IOS Apps I use regularly and depend on. Over the last couple of years, I’ve shifted some of my tools because I now require that apps that do things that I might want to also do on IOS (or access their data...

Here’s a list of the MacOS Apps I use regularly and depend on. Over the last couple of years, I’ve shifted some of my tools because I now require that apps that do things that I might want to also do on IOS (or access their data...

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